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Happy 4th to you all!
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Bawanna
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Right back at ya Bookie. That's a great photo and undoubtedly a trip down memory lane, every time you look at it.
Hope some of the memories are really good, I know some aren't.
I guess my new Marine son completes his infantry training this Thursday and found out he will be stationed at 29 Palms for 9 months give or take.
He's starting to act Marine. He says the training there is really good but nothing around any direction for a 100 miles.
Hope some of the memories are really good, I know some aren't.
I guess my new Marine son completes his infantry training this Thursday and found out he will be stationed at 29 Palms for 9 months give or take.
He's starting to act Marine. He says the training there is really good but nothing around any direction for a 100 miles.
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Happy 4th! Dealing with the lovely re-entry process myself at the moment. Seems like they added a bit more paper work this time through.
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Bookie : RETURN SALUTE!! And hubby throws in a big ol' Salute back too.
Hope everyone had a Wonderful 4th. Here in the US and those friends around the world!
BTW, I was talking with hubby the other day and he is guessing you were a 153 MOS? He stuck around until those new MOS codes came in, I didn't stay and got out just before they did so I tend to think of things listed like mine was a 2625 logistics officer so I personally think they probably retired your designation same as they did mine WAY back lol and replaced it with one like 153. But he is a hard head and is pretty certain he is right. Care to set the record straight for us? Nothing too good resting on the bet so no reason to "Bull" for my side if the troglodyte is right.
Darth, That is typical of the Military in every era I have read about or been involved with. If you don't have the form authorizing the action of filling out the form then you must file at least 3 forms to order the form to allow you to acquire the form that allows you to fill out the original form...in triplicate. But don't forget to file an extra copy of the DA-4187 assigning you to the position requiring the filling out of the form. Well you get the picture...
Bawanna, LOL they planned that post to be in the middle of no where on purpose Sounds like he is doing well. Always good to hear, hope things continue going well for him.
Hope everyone had a Wonderful 4th. Here in the US and those friends around the world!
BTW, I was talking with hubby the other day and he is guessing you were a 153 MOS? He stuck around until those new MOS codes came in, I didn't stay and got out just before they did so I tend to think of things listed like mine was a 2625 logistics officer so I personally think they probably retired your designation same as they did mine WAY back lol and replaced it with one like 153. But he is a hard head and is pretty certain he is right. Care to set the record straight for us? Nothing too good resting on the bet so no reason to "Bull" for my side if the troglodyte is right.
Darth, That is typical of the Military in every era I have read about or been involved with. If you don't have the form authorizing the action of filling out the form then you must file at least 3 forms to order the form to allow you to acquire the form that allows you to fill out the original form...in triplicate. But don't forget to file an extra copy of the DA-4187 assigning you to the position requiring the filling out of the form. Well you get the picture...
Bawanna, LOL they planned that post to be in the middle of no where on purpose
Sounds like he is doing well. Always good to hear, hope things continue going well for him.
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Happy fourth (..whats left of it) to all! Cool pic Bookie! Last time I was in Arkansas we camped in this big open field with some Razorbacks. Probably no surprise we cooked one on a stick. U of A at Monticello Geology club was sponsoring the trip. I was the president of our Geo club and we were invited to the roast. Lots of beer and good times. We also went up to fayetville, Mountain Home, and into southern Missouri. Thats about all my Razorback experience
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Happy belated 4th
The wife, daughter, and I walked the leisurely 1 mile walk (lil one rode in her wagon) down to the festivities on Friday night. Fireworks at 9pm, so we posted up at a nice vantage point right on the street corner around 8:15 to wait. 9pm rolls around, no fireworks. 9:10, 9:15, 9:20...nothin. A nice wind starts to come up from the riverfront. I see people looking at their phones as they pack their fold up chairs with them and start walking quickly (yet quietly) through the crowds.
9:25, a police officer keys his mic once and immediately begins talking. We have no idea what he is saying. I see a guy talking to the folks behind him giving them a weather report on his 5" screen.
9:27 Fat drop of water. 9:27:30 The Heavens open up in biblical fashion and flood the throngs of people. Panic as old folks shuffle to try to find a any over hang to get under, parents begin pushing flooded strollers containing soggy kids and about 6.7 gallons of water. Teenagers dart and scream and laugh with reckless abandon.
The make up hits my wife's eyes. She's blinded by it combined with the sheets or rain. My poor little 4 year old whimpers about how she is wet and doesn't want to be wet anymore. My boots are filled, my jeans plastered to my leg, my festive Hawaiian clung to my arms and shoulders limiting my movements.
Out came the mini mag on my belt so that we could navigate the flooded 200 year old streets and speeding cars for the long drenched trudge home. Thankfully my brand new phone (literally just got it that day) was saved by the Otter Box around it. I did have to clean and oil my multi-tool, Case knife, and pocket .380 when I got back in the house
Like my wife told my daughter...it'll be a memory to share
The actual 4th was actually a lot of fun. Hung out at my dad and stepmom's. Good food, beer, margaritas, and some swimming. My 4 year old is old enough to do the whole sparkler thing with supervision, so she and I are lighting some off together. They are the bamboo kind, so they don't turn into molten wire like the old kind. However, she knows the rules. As soon as the sparkler goes out, she is to pass it to me so that I can put it on the ground and stamp it out with my shoe.
Between my dad and I, we bought like 63,489 of these sparklers, so by the time we are on the 58,423th one, I start to get tired of it and am lighting them fast and furious to get through them. In my daughter's excitement, she passes a sparkler that ALMOST out to me with a quick jerking stab. The top part of the glowing stick snaps off about 3" from the top and falls.
...into the top of my sport sandal. It finds its way to the really super soft spot between the ball of my ankle and heel. It literally smokes and I can smell my foot flesh cooking. I jump up like Yosemite Sam after getting the ol' Hot Foot from Bug's Bunny. I'm stomping out my foot and only driving the glowing stick in deeper until if mercifully goes out (even if it is now fused to my FOOT)
My dad rushed to my aid with a look of absolute concern and resolve to help his son...Just kidding, he's over in his lawn chair doubled over laughing so hard he can barely breathe. My 14 year old brother DOES come to my aid (the saint) and starts looking for my beer to douse the wound. I'm guessing he thought that the 6% alcohol would cleanse it. I thank him and decide that it would do a much better job medicating the burn from the inside out.
Sooo, I am sitting her and work today nursing a limp and a mild headcold that I may have picked up from walking through a toad strangler the night before. Actually, it really was a kinda fun holiday
The wife, daughter, and I walked the leisurely 1 mile walk (lil one rode in her wagon) down to the festivities on Friday night. Fireworks at 9pm, so we posted up at a nice vantage point right on the street corner around 8:15 to wait. 9pm rolls around, no fireworks. 9:10, 9:15, 9:20...nothin. A nice wind starts to come up from the riverfront. I see people looking at their phones as they pack their fold up chairs with them and start walking quickly (yet quietly) through the crowds.
9:25, a police officer keys his mic once and immediately begins talking. We have no idea what he is saying. I see a guy talking to the folks behind him giving them a weather report on his 5" screen.
9:27 Fat drop of water. 9:27:30 The Heavens open up in biblical fashion and flood the throngs of people. Panic as old folks shuffle to try to find a any over hang to get under, parents begin pushing flooded strollers containing soggy kids and about 6.7 gallons of water. Teenagers dart and scream and laugh with reckless abandon.
The make up hits my wife's eyes. She's blinded by it combined with the sheets or rain. My poor little 4 year old whimpers about how she is wet and doesn't want to be wet anymore. My boots are filled, my jeans plastered to my leg, my festive Hawaiian clung to my arms and shoulders limiting my movements.
Out came the mini mag on my belt so that we could navigate the flooded 200 year old streets and speeding cars for the long drenched trudge home. Thankfully my brand new phone (literally just got it that day) was saved by the Otter Box around it. I did have to clean and oil my multi-tool, Case knife, and pocket .380 when I got back in the house
Like my wife told my daughter...it'll be a memory to share
The actual 4th was actually a lot of fun. Hung out at my dad and stepmom's. Good food, beer, margaritas, and some swimming. My 4 year old is old enough to do the whole sparkler thing with supervision, so she and I are lighting some off together. They are the bamboo kind, so they don't turn into molten wire like the old kind. However, she knows the rules. As soon as the sparkler goes out, she is to pass it to me so that I can put it on the ground and stamp it out with my shoe.
Between my dad and I, we bought like 63,489 of these sparklers, so by the time we are on the 58,423th one, I start to get tired of it and am lighting them fast and furious to get through them. In my daughter's excitement, she passes a sparkler that ALMOST out to me with a quick jerking stab. The top part of the glowing stick snaps off about 3" from the top and falls.
...into the top of my sport sandal. It finds its way to the really super soft spot between the ball of my ankle and heel. It literally smokes and I can smell my foot flesh cooking. I jump up like Yosemite Sam after getting the ol' Hot Foot from Bug's Bunny. I'm stomping out my foot and only driving the glowing stick in deeper until if mercifully goes out (even if it is now fused to my FOOT)
My dad rushed to my aid with a look of absolute concern and resolve to help his son...Just kidding, he's over in his lawn chair doubled over laughing so hard he can barely breathe. My 14 year old brother DOES come to my aid (the saint) and starts looking for my beer to douse the wound. I'm guessing he thought that the 6% alcohol would cleanse it. I thank him and decide that it would do a much better job medicating the burn from the inside out.
Sooo, I am sitting her and work today nursing a limp and a mild headcold that I may have picked up from walking through a toad strangler the night before. Actually, it really was a kinda fun holiday
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Happy belated 4th
Sorry about what happened. But yeah, it is pretty damn funny. After reading, and thinking about it, I was cracking up. Glad you had a memorable July 4th, not one to soon forget anyways.
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LoL Steely, That has to be one of the best Fourth stories I have ever heard. Since it is afterwards and the "medicating from the inside out" appears to have been MOSTLY successful as it sounds like there will not be permanent injury to more than your pride, I will admit that I was rolling laughing probably about as hard as your Dad at the way you wrote it. Your literary style is superb and I could picture it as if I was there both days Soggy and Sizzled.
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Dai Uy Shav: 100 Echo. Attack Helicopter Pilot.
Jake: Feel for you, man! I know not the smoldering bamboo skewers of death, but the molten iron truth retrievers have branded toes, insteps, ankles, to the point that I have confessed to everyone's crimes and sins twice over. I feel for you, man!
Jake: Feel for you, man! I know not the smoldering bamboo skewers of death, but the molten iron truth retrievers have branded toes, insteps, ankles, to the point that I have confessed to everyone's crimes and sins twice over. I feel for you, man!
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I gotta believe that for sure. You've certainly handled enough glowing red hot stuff in every shape and form.
If you've been burned a 100 times, I'd say the law of averages are probably still in your favor.
So it was you what left that flaming bag of dog poo on my front porch? For shame, for shame.
Are the current Razorbacks considered 100 Echo now also or something different.
If you've been burned a 100 times, I'd say the law of averages are probably still in your favor.
So it was you what left that flaming bag of dog poo on my front porch? For shame, for shame.
Are the current Razorbacks considered 100 Echo now also or something different.
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Hehe, Yep 100E. I would have guessed that or 102A "Rotary and Fixed Wing Pilot" if I had to guess. But I wasn't sure how long afterwards you stuck around so wasn't sure if you had stayed past the time they re-numbered things. LoL I have to admit I liked the old system better. Never really got the hang of the new numbering system and how you could differentiate between PMos and DMos and the Suffix/prefixes.
really liking Pemba's new shiny toy, but a 49er's fan? Well have to give him benefit of the doubt since he has such great taste in steel.
really liking Pemba's new shiny toy, but a 49er's fan? Well have to give him benefit of the doubt since he has such great taste in steel.